Local Charlottesville Poet and Poet Laureate, Charles Wright, has garnered nearly every big-deal literary award:
The Pulitzer Prize,
National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Award,
and the Griffin Poetry Prize
A professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, WRIGHT is routinely mentioned in the same breath as "greatest." As in, "greatest poet of his generation." (Boston Globe, 2009).
Looking for summer reading or a great gift idea?
Here is Wright's most recent book.
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